Arrived at BorCon and registered today. Met another Delphi developer on the train that is actually from Nampa too. We visited some and found out that he actually lived a crossed the street from one of the houses I grew up in. Small world.
We went looking for dinner and the drug store to pick up a couple of things I was missing. Found a great pizza place and had the Great Chicago Fire - it had Italian sausage, cilantro and sport peppers. Sport peppers turn out to be like pepperoncini peppers, maybe a little spicier. I had never heard of them before.
Found the drug store and picked up the few things I was missing, including breakfast and snacks for the next couple days.
Decided to look over my bag and its contents. First of all we got a nice backpack again this year. It looks like a regular old backpack, but is actually a laptop bag as well. Pretty cool.
The badge holder this year doesn't have a slot to hold my pen. That is a really unfortunate. I thought that slot was very useful. The pen is a lot larger this year, maybe it wasn't going to fit in the slot. Personally I'd rather have a smaller pen that I could keep in my badge even though this seems like a rather nice pen.
In the bag we have:
From Borland we have the BorCon program, conference evaluation form, discount price list and an Exhibit Hall Treasure Hunt card. It has a map of the exhibit hall, and if you get a stamp from each exhibiter then you are entered into a drawing for $250 bookstore shopping spree or other prizes. No Conference CD, I will need to see if I just am missing that.
From Microsoft:
- Tablet PC Developer Start CD version 1.2 from Microsoft.
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 CD. They are really trying to get people to install that one. I'm still not sold on it though. I'll give it some more time and wait before installing it.
- ASP.net Resource Kit - bunch of 3rd party ASP.net components and some other related stuff I guess.
We then have a few papers:
- An add from ProcessExchange for a presentation on Agile Methodologies.
- A quiz from Versant to pickup a free prize and be entered in a drawing for an iPod.
- HP Software Developer program flyer. See DevResource.hp.com
- The final issue of Delphi Informant from August. They will be missed.
- The September issue of ASP.net Pro magazine. Which includes Virtual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta on CD.
And of course the T-Shirt which is really cool this year.
Time to hit the sack. I'll have more to share tomorrow.
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